The second Swedish prosecutor, the one who revived the charges, is a US CIA asset. You can verify this yourself. He represented the US CIA for the Swedish Extraordinary Rendition case.

The second prosecutor, the one who re-instated the charges, is a CIA asset. He's the same lawyer who represented the US CIA for the Swedish Extraordinary Rendition charges.

Sweden cooperated with the Extraordinary Rendition program. The Swedish prosecutor who charged Assange is a CIA asset, in that he also represented the CIA for Swedish Extraordinary Rendition cases.

See above. Sweden has traditionally had a good working relationship with the US CIA. I don't know why they chose Sweden over the UK for this particular dirty work. I've also been to both countries.

Parent exactly nailed it. Shale gas is a scam. The 'hundreds of years of supply' meme is completely false, and is part of a paid social networking and general marketing campaign put on by a few US Fracking companies. Shale gas has poor net energy, making it not worthwhile from an energy source perspective, AND has the bonus of permanently poisoning the local water supply.

CPU might choose to retract the statement, but it's still valid. If you know much about much about how government Intelligence Agencies do their thing, you will know that false flag deception operations are routine. Anonymous was originally created circa 2005 by Hacktivismo, a branch of the cDc, under the tutelage of the Ninja Strike Force Dojo, but now anyon[sic] can correctly claim to be Anonymous.

In fact, flaws in current voting machines are quite helpful to maintaining the illusion of democracy, while still allowing for easy electoral fraud. Do you really think it's an OVERSIGHT that our electoral system is easily defrauded? It's not a bug, it's a feature!

Editors FYI: There has been a well funded, well orchestrated media campaign intended to confuse and deceive the public about the viability of the various unconventional oils, such as tight oil, tight gas, tar sands, and shale oil. The industry lies about this topic in order to trick the public into not opposing various fossil-energy projects that are impractical energy-losing boondoggles intended to separate fools from their money, which only incidentally poison the water table. This article is attempting to counter that slick, well funded public relations operation with science and facts. As such, the opposing view is 10,000x better funded than this article, but this article is truthful, so let's publish it.

I was wondering whether someone was going to call the poster out for being an astroturfing sock puppet. While it may, or may not, be the case in this particular example, it shows that people are becoming more aware of the problem. This is a good thing.

I would like to point out that the marketing firms that provide astroturf/sockpuppet service have grown more sophisticated that has our awareness of the problem. For example, a competent sock-puppeteer will create the accounts YEARS in advance and fill them with occasional post so they look like real accounts. They now routinely create entire online ecosystems, including false debates & discussions, where they play multiple the critical roles with different accounts. Watch for this!

We wanted our VOIP services to be free of CALEA backdoors, so we based ourselves in Luxembourg, where they do not have such regulations, and are not likely to have them anytime soon.

There's a discussion about it on Bruce Schneier's blog